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  • Parental Attitudes

    How quickly and how successfully newborn infants will adjust to postnatal life is greatly influenced by parental attitudes. This is the fifth condition that influences the kind of adjustments infants make to postnatal life.

    When parental attitudes are unfavourable, for whatever the reason, they are reflected in treatment of the infant that militates against successful adjustments to postnatal ...

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  • Major Adjustment of Infancy

    Infants must make four major adjustments before they can resume their developmental progress. If they do not make them quickly, their lives will be threatened. While these adjustments are being made, there is no developmental progress. Instead, the infant remains on a plateau or may even regress to a lower stage of development. These adjustments are ...

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  • 5 Characteristics Of Infancy

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Infancy, or the period of the newborn, is, according to standard dictionaries, the beginning or the early period of existence as an individual rather than as a parasite in the mother’s body. Dictionaries also define an infant as a child in the first period of life.

    According to legal standards, an infant is an individual who is a minor until ...

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  • Unfavorable Attitudes on the Part of Significant People

    The third common psychological hazard during the prenatal period is unfavourable attitudes on the part of significant people in the child’s life. This is, in many respects, the most serious and far-reaching in its influence because once attitudes are developed they tend to persists with little if any real change or modification ...

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  • Why It's Important To Conceive

    6 years, 5 months ago
    Importance of Conception

    At the time of conception, four important conditions are determined that influence the individual’s later development. What role each of these conditions plays in the individual’s development will explain why the time of conception is probably the most important period in the life span.

    Hereditary Endowment

    The first important happening at the time of conception is the ...

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  • How Life Begins

    New life begins with the union of a male sex cell and a female sex cell. These sex cells are developed in the reproductive organs, the gonads. The male sex cells, the spermatozoa (singular: spermatozoon), are produced in the male gonads; the testes, while the female sex cells, the ova (singular: ovum), are produced in the female ...

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  • In spite of the fact that the first developmental period in the life span is next to the shortest of all – the shortest is the period of the newborn or infancy – it is in many respects one of the most, if not the most, important period of all. This period, which begins at conception and ends at birth ...

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  • Happiness and Unhappiness During the Life Span

    Life satisfaction, usually referred to as “happiness,” comes from the fulfilment of a need or wish and, as such, is the cause or means of enjoyment. As Alston and Dudley have explained, “Life satisfaction is the ability to enjoy one’s experiences, accompanied by a degree of excitement”.

    According to the definitions of ...

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  • Subdivisions of the Life Span

    Regardless of how long or how short the total life span is, it is usually subdivided into stages or periods, each of which is characterized by certain behavioural or developmental characteristics. Chronological age (C.A.) is the criterion used for this subdivision. As Fry has explained:

    C.A is only a rough index of biological ...

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  • Attitudes toward Developmental Changes

    Although changes of a physical or psychological nature are constantly taking place, many people are only vaguely aware of them unless they occur abruptly or markedly affect the pattern of their lives. The changes of old age, for example, usually occur at a much slower pace than those of childhood or adolescence. However, they still require ...

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